Singing In Mandarin

Author : Katherine Chu,Juliet Petrus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538131435

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Singing in Mandarin by Katherine Chu,Juliet Petrus Pdf

Access audio files at:https://soundcloud.com/k-chu-j-petrus/sets/singing-in-mandarin-recorded The success of Chinese artists internationally across many art forms has focused the world's attention on the developing cultural phenomenon in China, an emerging stage for the vocal arts. As one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, Mandarin is poised to become the next addition to lyric languages. Singing in Mandarin: A Guide to Chinese Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire is a comprehensive guide to unlocking the mysteries of Chinese contemporary vocal literature. In part one, Chu and Petrus focus on diction and language, providing detailed descriptions and exercises for creating the sounds of the language. They take a uniquely systematic approach, fusing together best practices from international music conservatories for diction study, with those for Chinese language learning. Part two outlines the historical context of Chinese vocal literature, chronicling the development of the language and its repertoire over the last one hundred years. Audio files narrated by native speakers demonstrating the sounds are also included. Singing in Mandarin provides guidance for both novices and those with previous experience singing or speaking Mandarin and is the first book of its kind to help bring the fascinating and previously inaccessible treasure of Chinese vocal music to Western audiences.

Author : Patricia Tina Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Children's songs, Chinese
ISBN : 0692306633

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Sing with Me in Mandarin by Patricia Tina Wu Pdf

Author : Klavier J. Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811388170

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Hong Kong Popular Culture by Klavier J. Wang Pdf

This book traces the evolution of the Hong Kong’s popular culture, namely film, television and popular music (also known as Cantopop), which is knotted with the city’s geo-political, economic and social transformations. Under various historical contingencies and due to the city’s special geo-politics, these three major popular cultural forms have experienced various worlding processes and have generated border-crossing impact culturally and socially. The worlding processes are greatly associated the city’s nature as a reception and departure port to Sinophone migrants and populations of multiethnic and multicultural. Reaching beyond the “golden age” (1980s) of Hong Kong popular culture and afar from a film-centric cultural narration, this book, delineating from the dawn of the 20th century and following a chronological order, untangles how the nowadays popular “Hong Kong film”, “Hong Kong TV” and “Cantopop” are derived from early-age Sinophone cultural heritage, re-shaped through cross-cultural hybridization and influenced by multiple political forces. Review of archives, existing literatures and corporation documents are supplemented with policy analysis and in-depth interviews to explore the centennial development of Hong Kong popular culture, which is by no means demise but at the juncture of critical transition.

Author : Qing Chang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 7107232037

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Sing Along - Learn Mandarin by Qing Chang Pdf

Author : Beng Huat Chua
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789888139033

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Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture by Beng Huat Chua Pdf

East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process of transcultural audiences and the processes of audiences’ formation and exercise of consumer power and engagement with national politics. In an era where exercise of military power is increasingly restrained, pop culture has become an important component of soft power diplomacy and transcultural collaborations in a region that is still haunted by colonization and violence. The author notes that the aspirations behind national governments' efforts to use popular culture is limited by the fragmented nature of audiences who respond differently to the same products; by the danger of backlash from other members of the importing country's population that do not consume the popular culture products in question; and by the efforts of the primary consuming country, the People's Republic of China to shape products through co-production strategies and other indirect modes of intervention.

Author : Michele Wong McSween
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781338291056

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My First Mandarin Words with Gordon & Li Li by Michele Wong McSween Pdf

Learn English and Mandarin words with panda cousins Gordon and Li Li in this charming and colorful bilingual first words book! Gordon and Li Li are cousins. Li Li is from Beijing, China, and speaks Mandarin. Gordon lives in Brooklyn, New York, and speaks English. When Li Li visits Gordon for the first time, the cousins must learn to communicate using simple, everyday words. Children and caregivers can read along with Gordon and Li Li as they learn basic English and Mandarin words and their correct pronunciation. Each spread of this sturdy book spotlights a different theme, including greetings, colors, numbers, and animals! And every word features the English and pinyin spelling along with the Chinese character and the phonetic Mandarin pronunciation to help readers practice. This is an adorable and informative must-have first words book for any family who wants to get little ones excited to open the door to learning a second language -- and future language success!

Author : Qing Chang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 7107231065

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Sing Along - Learn Mandarin by Qing Chang Pdf

Author : Edward M. Gunn
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824874506

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Rendering the Regional by Edward M. Gunn Pdf

For centuries the sub-national languages of China have been a fundamental feature in daily life and popular culture, while a standardized form of Mandarin has been adopted as the language of the state (including education). Suppressed during powerful movements to establish a modern, national culture, these local languages or dialects have nevertheless survived, and their resurgence in the media and literature has caused tensions to surface. Concerns for education, law, and commerce have all promoted a standard national language, yet, at the same time, as local societies have undergone massive transformations, the need to re-imagine communities has repeatedly challenged the adequacy of a single language to represent them. Moreover, local languages have been presented in dramatically different and conflicted roles—as symbols of the failure to assimilate to a cultural mainstream (which in turn may be parodied as contingent and inadequate) or asserting the identity of a community as a site of its own cultural production and not merely as a venue for transmitting a national culture. Acknowledging local language as authentic may also reveal cultural hegemonies within regions and contested versions of communities. This ground-breaking study surveys in detail the sweep of local languages in television, radio, film, and print culture of late twentieth-century mainland China, especially Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Chengdu, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Focusing on these regions, the analysis contrasts and compares these distinct communities to each other and to the ways in which they mediate culture as a national institution. It draws on a wide range of critical, cultural, and media studies and explores how varied genres and media have sought to represent the tensions and assertions within these societies and how they construct the local in an age of globalization.

Author : Kwok-Bun Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317977995

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Chinese Entertainment by Kwok-Bun Chan Pdf

Scholarly studies of Chinese culture, history and society, both within and outside of China, generally pay little attention to leisure, entertainment and amusement, though it has long been known that this aspect of life gives a deep understanding of the psyche and soul, and the hopes and fears, of a person. Leisure is a less coerced-upon, mandatory human conduct than work; certainly leisurely conduct is more voluntary, expressive and creative. But when seen as human behaviour, leisure and entertainment cannot be separated from history, heritage, ethnicity, the community, family and kin, rituals and customs – thus a collective activity and its constraints on the person. This book examines a variety of genre of Chinese entertainment, from singing clubs, Cantonese opera and film, to Chinese rock and tourism. Though formally voluntary, Chinese entertainment, when entangled with ethnicity, heritage and history, is ironically a site of both enjoyment and struggle, both pleasure and suffering. This book was originally published as a special issue of Visual Anthropology.

Author : Monique M. Ingalls
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190499655

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Singing the Congregation by Monique M. Ingalls Pdf

Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself. Author Monique M. Ingalls argues that participatory worship music performances have brought into being new religious social constellations, or "modes of congregating". Through exploration of five of these modes--concert, conference, church, public, and networked congregations--Singing the Congregation reinvigorates the analytic categories of "congregation" and "congregational music." Drawing from theoretical models in ethnomusicology and congregational studies, Singing the Congregation reconceives the congregation as a fluid, contingent social constellation that is actively performed into being through communal practice--in this case, the musically-structured participatory activity known as "worship." "Congregational music-making" is thereby recast as a practice capable of weaving together a religious community both inside and outside local institutional churches. Congregational music-making is not only a means of expressing local concerns and constituting the local religious community; it is also a powerful way to identify with far-flung individuals, institutions, and networks that comprise this global religious community. The interactions among the congregations reveal widespread conflicts over religious authority, carrying far-ranging implications for how evangelicals position themselves relative to other groups in North America and beyond.

Author : Huali Xiong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bilingual books
ISBN : 9810496044

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Chang huayu by Huali Xiong Pdf

Children learn basic Mandarin Chinese vocabulary and printed characters through songs and texts about everyday events and familiar items.

Author : Bao Phi
Publisher : Capstone Editions
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781684463381

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Hello, Mandarin Duck! by Bao Phi Pdf

Author : Gary M. Davison,Barbara Reed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313032141

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Culture and Customs of Taiwan by Gary M. Davison,Barbara Reed Pdf

Taiwanese society is in the midst of an immense, exciting effort to define itself, seeking to erect a contemporary identity upon the foundation of a highly distinctive history. This book provides a thorough overview of Taiwanese cultural life. The introduction familiarizes students and interested readers with the island's key geographical and demographic features, and provides a chronological summary of Taiwanese history. In the following chapters, Davison and Reed reveal the uniqueness of Taiwan, and do not present it simply as the laboratory of traditional Chinese culture that some anthropologists of the 1950s through the 1970s sought when mainland China was not accessible. The authors examine how religious devotion in Taiwan is different from China in that the selected deities are those most relevant to the needs of the Taiwanese people. Literature and art, particularly of the 20th century, reflect the Taiwanese quest for identity more than the grand Chinese tradition. The Taiwanese architecture, festivals and leisure activities, music and dance, cuisine and fashion, are also highlighted topics. The final chapter presents the most recent information regarding children and education, and explores the importance of the Taiwanese family in the context of meaningful relationships amongst acquaintances, friends, and institutions that make up the social universe of the Taiwanese. This text is a lively treatment of one of the world's most dynamic societies.

Author : Distinguished Professor Yu Hui,Yu Hui,Jonathan P. J. Stock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190661960

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The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora by Distinguished Professor Yu Hui,Yu Hui,Jonathan P. J. Stock Pdf

In The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora, twenty-three scholars advance knowledge and understandings of Chinese music studies. Each contribution develops a theoretical model to illuminate new insights into a key musical genre or context. This handbook is categorized into three parts. In Part One, authors explore the extensive, remarkable, and polyvocal historical legacies of Chinese music. Ranging from archaeological findings to the creation of music history, chapters address enduring historical practices and emerging cultural expressions. Part Two focuses on evolving practice across a spectrum of key instrumental and vocal genres. Each chapter provides a portrait of musical change, tying musical transformations to the social dimensions underpinning that change. Part Three responds to the role that prominent issues, including sexuality, humanism, the amateur, and ethnicity, play in the broad field of Chinese music studies. Scholars present systematic orientations for researchers in the third decade of the twenty-first century. This volume incorporates extensive input from researchers based in China, Taiwan, and among Chinese communities across the world. Using a model of collaborative inquiry, The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora features diverse insider voices alongside authors positioned across the anglophone world.

Author : Annette Capel,Wendy Sharp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107628304

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Objective First Student's Book with Answers with CD-ROM by Annette Capel,Wendy Sharp Pdf

Fourth edition of the best-selling Cambridge English: First (FCE) course, updated to prepare for the 2015 revised exam. The Student's Book with answers contains fresh, updated texts and artwork that provide solid language development, lively class discussion and training in exam skills. The 24 topic-based units include examples from the Cambridge English Corpus to highlight common learner errors, while vocabulary sections informed by the English Vocabulary Profile ensure that students are learning the most useful language required at this level. A phrasal verb list provides a handy reference. The interactive CD-ROM provides comprehensive extra practice of the language and topics covered in the book. Class Audio CDs containing the recordings for the listening exercises are available separately.